WHO Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on Determinants of Health Equity
This Centre investigates the social dimensions of ill-health, in particular social pathways to and from health inequalities and what can be done about them.
NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR)
This is a partnership between nine leading academic centres with excellence in applied public health research in England. Read more.
Investigators: Professor David Taylor-Robinson, Professor Ben Barr, Professor Sarah Rodgers
Researchers: Dr Jamie O’Brien, Dr Lateef Akanni, Dr Alexander Alexiou, Paris Lee, Professor Emma Boyland, Dr Rachel Loopstra
Fellow: Dr Oluwaseun Esan
PhD students: Rukun Khalaf, Rosalyn Arnold
NIHR Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST)
This team works with local authorities to co-produce research on the public health impacts of initiatives. PHIRST Lilac have expertise in a range of methods including in-depth qualitative investigation, quasi-experimental and economic methods. Our place-based research platforms combine multi-sectoral whole population linked datasets with narratives on lived experiences of inequalities, which can be used to rapidly evaluate public health interventions across the UK. Read more.
Investigators: Professor Ben Barr, Professor Iain Buchan, Professor David Taylor-Robinson, Professor Sarah Rodgers
Researchers: Dr Emma Coombes, Dr Huihui Song
Project support: Layla Smith, Jonathan Wood
NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit (PH-PRU)
The PH-PRU conducts public health research with a social determinants focus, delivered within four broad themes: Understanding what determines people’s physical and mental health, and health behaviours; identifying, developing and evaluating effective and cost effective PH interventions; generating evidence to inform strategies to reduce inequalities in health; and developing new theory and methods, and new ways to apply them to public health challenges. Read more.
LILAC (Liverpool and Lancaster Universities Collaboration for Public Health Research)
LiLaC's mission is to produce evidence on how to tackle inequalities in health through action on the upstream causes of inequalities - these are the conditions in which we live or work and where children grow up or people grow old. Read more.
The Place Based Longitudinal Data Resource (PLDR)
The Place Based Longitudinal Data Resource (PLDR) brings together datasets that track changes in the determinants of health and health outcomes, in places over time. Read more.
GroundsWell UK Prevention Partnership
The GroundsWell UK Prevention Research Partnership aims to drive community innovation applying systems science that maximise the contribution of Urban Green and Blue Space to the primary prevention of, and reduction of inequalities in, non communicable diseases (NCD) in urban settings. It is led by Sarah Rodgers, together with colleagues Professor Ruth Hunter at Queens University Belfast, and Professor Ruth Jepson (Edinburgh University).
Investigators: Professor Sarah Rodgers, Dr Olly Butters, Dr Rebecca Geary, Professor Ben Barr, Professor Iain Buchan
Researchers: Rebecca Crook, Ellen Schwaller, Wendee Zhang, Elly King, Hannah Burnett, Roberto Villegas-Diaz
The group also contributes to the following Institute and Faculty-wide initiatives:
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast
ARC North West Coast brings together communities, health professionals and researchers to grow applied Health Research within the North West for the benefit of the local population and NHS. HIP-R researchers contribute across ARC, particularly its population health and informatics research themes. Read more.
Children Growing Up in Liverpool (C-GULL)
C-GULL is a new birth cohort study which will include 10,000 local families and is focused on improving the health and wellbeing of children within the Liverpool City Region. Read more.
NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections
The NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections explores and explains the distribution of diarrhoeal diseases in the population, establishing for whom the disease burden is greatest and why. Our Department leads on the People Theme of this Unit. Read more.
Liverpool Civic Data Cooperative (CDC)
CDC is a large-scale data linkage initiative which will enable the secure integration of health, social care and other locally-held data sets. The CDC will provide new tools for secure, anonymised data analysis to improve services and enable research. Citizens’ juries will be at the heart of decision-making about data uses. Read more.
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